Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke

The men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between 30 July and 1 August, at the Swimming Stadium.[1] This swimming event used the backstroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

GoldYoshi Oyakawa
 United States
SilverGilbert Bozon
 France
BronzeJack Taylor
 United States

Results

Heats

Heat 1

RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Gilbert Bozon France1:07.8
2Allen Stack United States1:08.9
3Bert Wardrop Great Britain1:09.9
4Jitse van der Veen Netherlands1:10.5
5Norihiko Kurahashi Japan1:10.7
6Vladimir Lopatin Soviet Union1:10.8
7Lucien Beaumont Canada1:14.2
8Khamlillal Shah India1:18.3

Heat 2

RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Pedro Galvão Argentina1:08.1
2Yasumasa Nishino Japan1:10.1
3Clemente Mejía Mexico1:10.7
4Helmut Koppelstätter Austria1:11.9
5Hermann Gericke Switzerland1:12.6
6Jerzy Boniecki Poland1:13.4
7Eurico Surgey Portugal1:13.7

Heat 3

RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Jack Taylor United States1:07.2
2Boris Škanata Yugoslavia1:07.5
3João Gonçalves Filho Brazil1:09.7
4Ladislav Bačík Czechoslovakia1:10.2
5Imre Nyéki Hungary1:10.6
6Peter Salmon Canada1:13.8
7Tom Pettersen Norway1:15.4

Heat 4

RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Yoshi Oyakawa United States1:06.0
2Lin Meiring South Africa1:08.5
3Fernando Pavan Brazil1:09.1
4Jitse van der Veen Netherlands1:09.1
5Bijoy Barman India1:27.3

Heat 5

RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1John Brockway Great Britain1:08.8
2Lucien Zins France1:09.7
3Ilo da Fonseca Brazil1:09.9
4Leonid Sagayduk Soviet Union1:11.4
5Wu Chuanyu China1:12.3
6Eduardo Barbeiro Portugal1:13.0

Heat 6

RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Egidio Massaria Italy1:08.8
2Viktor Solovyov Soviet Union1:09.5
3Lincoln Hurring New Zealand1:09.6
4László Gyöngyösi Hungary1:10.0
5Frank O'Neill Australia1:10.5
6Erkki Marttinen Finland1:15.2

Tie-breaker

RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Bert Wardrop Great Britain1:07.8
2Ilo da Fonseca Brazil1:09.5

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Yoshi Oyakawa United States1:05.4OR
Gilbert Bozon France1:06.2
Jack Taylor United States1:06.4
4Allen Stack United States1:07.6
5Pedro Galvão Argentina1:07.7
6Bert Wardrop Great Britain1:07.8
7Boris Škanata Yugoslavia1:08.1
8Lin Meiring South Africa1:08.3

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

  1. "Swimming at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's 100 metres Backstroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
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